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Two killings raise simmering tensions along Uganda Rwanda border

Jean-Jacques Cornish — Sun, 26 May 2019 22:00:00 +0000

The deaths of two Ugandans by Rwanda police gunfire has raised simmering tensions between the two Great Lakes countries.

Authorities in Kampala and Kigali are at odds over where the shootings took place.

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For some months, Rwanda’s partly closed its border with Uganda for allegedly supporting rebels against President Paul Kagame.

Rwandan authorities say, Ugandan smugglers about to be apprehended by Rwandan police last Friday attacked them with machettes. The police fatally shot two of them who were carried back across the border into Uganda by their gang.

Kampala authorities insist the Rwandas soldiers crossed into Uganda and fired on innocent civilians.

The increased tension has further restricted movement across the border between these formerly close allies in the fight against the dictator Idi Amin.

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UN chief Guterres calls for peace in tomorrow’s Congolese election

Jean-Jacques Cornish — Fri, 28 Dec 2018 22:00:00 +0000

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has called for peace ahead of tomorrow’s presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Demonstrations have torn the central African giant where polls have been closed to more than million voters because of the EBOLA outbreak, military actions against rebels and ethnic violence.

Sunday’s election in the DRC should produce the first democratic change of president since the nation’s independence from Belgium in 1960.

UN boss Antonio Guterres calls it an opportunity to consolidate the DRC’s democratic institutions.

He calls on the authorities, political leaders, election officials and civil society to avoid taking any provocative action and to show maximum retrain to enable the more than 40 million voters peacefully to cast their ballots.

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Sudan will benefit from Washington’s lessons in Cuba and Iran

Jean-Jacques Cornish — Tue, 14 Apr 2015 22:00:00 +0000

Sudan’s Vice President says his country will benefit from lessons the United States has learned in Cuba and Iran.
Speaking to reporters covering elections in Sudan, he’s attacked the double standards applied to his country by the European Union saying the poll cannot be credible.
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Vice President Hassabo Mohammed Abdurahman says Sudan’s different from Cuba and Iran.
But in all three cases Washington’s pursued wrong policies of confrontation and sanctions.
The Sudanese vice president says the US has seen the error of its ways.
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Abdurahman slams the west for failing to lift sanctions following the separation of South Sudan in 2011 and not meeting its promise to help finance that difficult adaptation.
He says they’re still trying to interfere in Sudan’s internal affairs by criticising the current election that he insists will be followed by national dialogue including the opposition groups boycotting the poll.

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